It's late!!! For a most important date!

Yes, that would be my new KitchenAid mixer… which was supposed to be here yesterday in time for me to bake cookies today!  Now UPS tracking is showing today, probably around midnight tonight.  LOL

So meanwhile, my twenty something year old original one is getting a final workout.  It’s old, it’s grungy, but still a workhorse… but the new one has a much larger motor, so I can’t wait to try it out. I wish the new one was this color and finish, I love the way it looks like cast iron.

I made Jim his requested peanut butter cookies this morning.  Who chooses peanut butter cookies for their special Christmas cookie request?

Three new fruitcakes, this time they will last until Christmas!

And butter softening on the counter, for the next three batches of cookies.  These are all new recipes for me, old ones from Cook’s Illustrated I’ve decided to try.

Pecan crescents, I want to try their recipe as it’s made with super fine sugar like you use for crème brulée, molasses spice cookies with orange essence, and Italian rum balls.  I have a rum ball recipe, but it’s nothing like these.  This is one I’m really looking forward to trying!

I don’t roll cookies… I don’t own a cookie cutter.  I don’t even like sugar cookies, although I do love Spritz cookies, but Jim has to crank them out for my, my hand can’t handle it, so I rarely make them.  

Two more free standing lace bookmarks made, and I think I’m finished with them.  I hope anyway.  I’d like to do some more snowflakes if I have time, but I have three more cosmetic bags to make first.